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… Luyt, SA businessman, politician and former president of the SA Rugby Football Union, is born. …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 4, p. 439 … Bpk. (F.V.B.) and Bonus Investment Corporation of South Africa Ltd. (Bonuscor) establish the mining an …

… Nigeria’s new military leadership releases nine of the country’s most prominent political prisoners, …

… Nigeria’s new military leadership releases nine of the country’s most prominent political prisoners, …

… The Volksraad of the South African Republic (ZAR) passes a resolution …

… The Recognition of Customary Marriages Act, 1998, protecting women and …

… Kenyon (P.K.) van der Bijl (76), former cabinet member of Zimbabwe, dies in Napier, Western Cape. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … an important Cabinet reshuffle, involving the promotion of moderate (’verligte’) members, the mo …

… Initial experiments on the body of Egyptian King Tutankhamen reveals him to be a fifteen year …

… United States closes its mission in Angola because of the violent struggle between three rival liberation groups. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … Lennox Sebe again becomes Chief Minister of the Ciskei, having won a by-election on 24 October 1975. …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 6, p. 537. … The Battle of Bushman’s Pass (more correctly called Langalibalele Pass) …

… Mozambique’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Joaquim Chissano, succeeds Samora Machel …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … a judicial commission to investigate the allegations of corruption. Its three members, Justice R.P. …

… country into a multi-party democracy after fifteen years of one-p …

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) (1999). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. … Cingo, evangelist and educationist who was headmaster of the first secondary day school f …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … Villiers, lexicographer, educationist, author and member of several cultural organisations, dies in St …

… Hayes, S. (ed)(2000).  Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001 ..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball. … planner and current chief Executive Designate & Chair of Eskom Enterprises (20 …

… Otto Krause (69), political analyst and journalist, dies of lung cancer in the Milpark Clinic in Johannesburg. …

… It is revealed that the government of President de Klerk donated money to the Inkatha Freedom …

… General Jan Kemp, acting SA minister of defence, announces during the Voortrekkereeufees …

… is formed under Kenneth Kaunda. Kaunda became president of independent Zamb …

… the leader, Eugene Terreblanche and eight other members of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) after …

… A new Coloured political movement, the Congress of the People (COPE) is launched in Cape Town’s Bellville …

… Zanzibar, a British protectorate since 1890 and now part of Tanzania, becomes an independent state within the …

… to marriage, minimum age for marriage and registration of marriages. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu is installed as the eighth king of the Zulus at a traditional ceremony at Nongoma …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … SA signs agreement with Poland on the avoidance of double taxation with respect to taxes on income. …

… obtains parliamentary approval for the continuation of British sanctions against Rhodesia for another year. ( …

… Thabo Mbeki leads a government delegation to the funeral of former state president, P.W. Botha, in George. …